Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Skylight, a digital consultancy, as a DevOps Engineer and collaborate with developers throughout the software development lifecycle. You will engineer a great developer experience through automation and process improvement, achieve technical excellence by adhering to lean-agile principles, and protect sensitive data by applying security best practices. Responsibilities include conducting security audits, planning remediations, and selecting appropriate tools and technologies. The ideal candidate possesses a strong understanding of modern software development, cloud-centric environments, and CI/CD pipelines. Skylight offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a fully remote work environment.

Requirements

• Understand the general concepts of modern software development and can work closely with software engineers
• Able to work in a cloud-centric world, which includes managing disparate, interconnected systems and ensuring the availability, reliability, and resiliency of these systems
• Can enable teams to deliver value to users and the business continuously (e.g., CI/CD pipelines)
• Know how to build secure, compliant applications and defend against common vulnerabilities
• Can work with software engineers to instrument applications and configure infrastructures for monitoring, metrics, alerting, logging, auditability, and compliance
• Know how to create and maintain your infrastructure as code and standardize deployment processes
• All work must be conducted within the U.S
• You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship
• As a government contractor, you may be required to obtain a public trust or security clearance
• You may be required to complete a company background check successfully

Responsibilities

• Engineer a great experience for developers who are working in web-based environments such as Ruby, Python, Java, and Node.js through automation, virtualization, and process improvement
• Achieve technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering principles and practices such as simple design and automated testing
• Protect sensitive data by applying security and privacy best practices
• Conduct security audits and risk analyses
• Plan and implement remediations
• Select and use the right tools, frameworks, languages, and technologies for the job, with a preference for open-source solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing clean, reusable code in at least one programming language
• Experience with application development, particularly web development and testing frameworks
• Prior experience working in the civic tech space
• Experience working in a remote-team environment
• Experience with Terraform

Benefits

• Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
• Flexible paid time off policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays
• Up to 12 weeks paid time off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents
• Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options
• Business development / sales bonuses
• Referral bonuses
• Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
• Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
• Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more)
• Dollar-for-dollar charity donation matching, up to $500 per year
• Access up to $1,000 before payday to cover emergency expenses
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
• An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good